Defense

Kraken Robotics Inc. announces a $1.1 million purchase order from an unnamed customer for several of its AquaPix® synthetic aperture sonars (SAS). These systems will be integrated to Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) for delivery to two distinct NATO navies. Delivery is expected in the first half of 2023.

Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Mike Gilday and Commandant of the Marine Corps Gen. David Berger met with the Royal Navy First Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Staff Adm. Sir Ben Key for a Strategic Dialogue at the Pentagon, Oct. 20.

L3Harris Technologies has made a strategic investment in Seasats, a privately-owned company involved in the design and production of low-cost, solar-powered maritime autonomous surface vehicles (ASV) for military and commercial use.

Ultra Maritime (Ultra) and UMS SKELDAR have been awarded a 2nd Phase contract under the Department of National Defense’s (DND) Innovation for Defense Excellence and Security (IDEaS) program, which will explore the development of a Rotary Wing UAS to provide an Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) sonobuoy dispensing capability, based on the SKELDAR V-200 Uncrewed Aircraft System (UAS).

MIND Technology, Inc. will present an implementation of its Spectral AI real time automatic target recognition (ATR) on the RTSYS COMET-300 autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) at the EURONAVAL Conference in Paris.

General Dynamics Electric Boat, a business unit of General Dynamics, has been awarded a U.S. Navy contract modification for lead-yard support, development studies and design efforts related to Virginia-class attack submarines.

RTsys, the French manufacturer of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUV) and handheld imaging sonar for EOD divers announces the contract signature with the Slovenian Navy for the supply of one COMET-MCM AUV and two NEMOSENS micro-AUVs.

Orbit Communications Systems Ltd., a leading global provider of maritime and airborne SATCOM terminals, tracking ground station solutions, and mission-critical airborne audio management systems, is to present the OceanTRx 4MIL maritime SATCOM terminal for the first time, at Euronaval 2022.

DSIT Solutions Ltd. (DSIT), one of the world’s leaders in underwater defence and security solutions, offering advanced, state-of-the-art sonar and acoustics technologies for naval, homeland security, and energy applications, will present, together with parent company RAFAEL Advanced Defense Systems, a comprehensive, integrated Torpedo Defence System (TDS) for surface vessels, at EURONAVAL 2022.

Kongsberg Maritime (KONGSBERG) announces a contract award with Polish shipbuilder Remontowa Shipbuilding SA (RSB) to supply three shipsets of KONGSBERG HUGIN AUV (Autonomous Underwater Vehicle) systems and related HiPAP positioning and communication systems for three newbuild warships for the Polish Navy.

DSIT Solutions Ltd., a world leader in the development, manufacture and supply of high-end, comprehensive and integrated protection solutions against all underwater threat types, showcases at EURONAVAL 2022 its unique, multilayered defense solution for securing strategic assets against the various types of underwater threats in diverse ranges and sea depths.

Synthetic Aperture techniques offer resolutions far exceeding those of conventional sonar systems. PicoSAS is ideally suited to littoral mine countermeasures (MCM) and unexploded ordinance (UXO) applications onboard autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) and remotely operated towed vehicles (ROTVs).